The worst part was that if someone called in sick, the on-call person had to come in and cover their shift. Everyone was seriously pissed at her because it was destroying their weekends... and she still did it, and nobody did anything about it.

I had a co-worker who lied about having cancer (which in itself, uh, yeah) and kept calling in sick because “her cancer hurt too much,” and each time her Facebook would shortly be full of photos of her and her husband out hiking or at the amusement park or whatever.

Oh, you must have met my mother. :|

My mother hates animals. When I was a kid, my father let us get a kitten and then brought it home all, “hey, guess what” when it was too late for my mother to say no (but she refused to let the cat inside the house, outdoor only). Two years later my parents divorced and sold the house, and my mother moved us out of…

After dealing with a succession of absolutely horrible roommates, I’ve lived alone for the better part of the last two decades - about fifteen years ago I was laid off and got a roommate to help pay the rent while I was job hunting, and it was seriously the worst decision I’ve made, because it cemented the idea that…

The local center has a LOT fewer donation slots available - from what I’ve been able to guess, I think only take one of each type of donation (blood, double red, platelets, etc) per hour. Which is great for being careful, but hard for donors to get in.

I’m O- and I’ve been getting texts from the Red Cross for a couple months now telling me that there’s a critical need for me to donate - but the local donation center has had every appointment booked for the next couple weeks whenever I look (and same for blood drives, now that they’re going again). I’d sure love to…

Have you been to therapy?

doesn’t mean that you’re asexual or dysfunctional or otherwise broken

Speaking as a former 911 dispatcher, I completely understand the law that requires all phones to be able to call 911. It’s a great idea, and definitely should exist. However. It should ALSO be a lot easier to track down the people abusing it and charge their inconsiderate asses for tying up emergency services. We had s…

I had been struggling with what to bring to a pot luck on Friday and I think I have now found my answer. 

A restaurant where they do that? Where they’re not also sitting at the bar to eat food? No.

Not sure what restaurants you've been going to, but I've never had that happen. If people are ordering drinks with their dinner the server usually brings them.

I did that once and it was glorious. I get to decide when I’m done with the meat parade, no one else, and there’s none of that waffling about, oh, do I want to admit that I’m still not full when everyone else is dramatically sighing about how they’re going to explode?

I can’t lie, I absolutely love going to a crowded restaurant on a weekend night and walking past the people waiting in the lobby to go sit at the bar, no wait.

One of the best servers I ever had was a very nice lady who showed me how to turn the salt shaker holder centerpiece thing into a book stand so I didn’t have to leave my book flat on the table. 

With headphones, I hope. One of the things I hate the most in the world is when I’m in a crowded restaurant (already noisy) and the people at the next table are letting their kids watch videos without headphones and the volume up at full. :|

The main challenge that has faced this solo diner has been restaurant staff who seem to think that I’m a loss of a tip and thus ignore me or treat me like a burden on their time. I’ve had some stellar service as a solo diner, don’t get me wrong, but most of the time when I show up and say I want a table for one I get…

I usually split it into two pans and freeze one for later baking, but a loaf pan sounds even better. More edges that way....

The only problem with cooking for yourself is that you have to eat all the leftovers yourself. By the fourth day of lasagna it’s just eaten straight out of the tupperware over the sink.